Cyberpunk 2077: internal PC benchmarks tested on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles

So, what did you get up to on the holiday break? I was intending to spend a bit of time catching up on my horribly late slate of projects, but I ended up going down yet another rabbit hole – and this one’s quite intriguing. Cyberpunk 2077 on PC ships with a range of internal benchmarks and streaming tests, only one of which users actually get to see. However, several others are available and thanks to a quirk of CD Projekt RED’s cross-platform save system, it’s possible to port those benchmark sequences across to consoles. I wasn’t exactly optimistic that they would work – but they do. The question is, are they in any way useful?

CDPR’s ‘official’ benchmark and a range of others are accessible in the PC version of the game and by my count, four of them auto-save during their duration, or else allow you to make a manual save as they start. This makes them exceptionally easy to access on the PC game (you load them like any other save game) but it also means that they transfer across once you log into CDPR’s online network.

Under this system, the last manual save, quick save and auto save move from system to system, and that’s how I managed to ‘port’ across PC’s benchmark sequences across to consoles. Unfortunately, saving progress isn’t possible in the official benchmark available from the main menu, but it’s arguably less interesting than the others anyway.